The value and limitations of Participatory Action Research methodology

Mackenzie, John Andrew; Tan, Poh-Ling; Hoverman, Suzanne; Baldwin, Claudia

doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.09.008

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“…Collective self-refl ection through interaction and dialogue among diverse participants supports a cyclical process of observation, analysis, planning, implementation, monitoring, and reviewing based on experiential learning and fosters adaptive management of the environment and ecosystems (Mackenzie et al 2012 ). The following section will present further analysis regarding the applicability and challenges of participatory sustainability research.…”

Section: Genesis and Evolution Of Participatory Sustainability Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Funding is critical for undertaking effective participatory sustainability research, and not only is it needed to cover costs, but it must also be fl exible enough to allow adaptive management of research activities (Mackenzie et al 2012 ). Pilot initiatives need to be planned and implemented based on an appraisal of local socio-economic and environmental conditions.…”

Section: Lessons Learned and Ways Forward To Improve The Impacts Of Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Participatory Sustainability Research for Risk Management and Leadership Development

Kobayashi

2014

Sustainable Living With Environmental Risks

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Effective risk management and sustainability promotion require proper assessment of the environment and social capacity for managing the environment. National governments and international agencies provide monitoring data on the environment such as data relating to air and water quality, forest cover, land, biodiversity, and waste management. While local communities and stakeholders need to play a vital role in managing risks and promoting sustainability at the fi eld level, however, they often lack scientifi c information. Instead they rely on the experiential and observation-based information that is often the most useful in communicating to other community members and stakeholders. Participatory assessment can therefore provide a useful tool for community members and stakeholders to comprehend environmental risks and challenges in promoting sustainability. Meanwhile, the feedback from the communities and stakeholders constitutes useful information for decision-makers and practitioners to plan and facilitate transformation in policies and institutions in order to improve environmental risk management and promote sustainability.

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Section: Genesis and Evolution Of Participatory Sustainability Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Lessons Learned and Ways Forward To Improve The Impacts Of Pmentioning

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Participatory Sustainability Research for Risk Management and Leadership Development

Kobayashi

2014

Sustainable Living With Environmental Risks

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“…In project 2, using a participatory action methodology, we combined a research focus which embedded good process into developing a range of engagement tools that could be readily used by water planners [19]. The study regions were the River Murray, South Australia; the Condamine Alluvium, Queensland; and the Tiwi Island, Northern Territory.…”

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“Localism” as an approach to community participation in Australian water planning

Tan¹

2012

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Sharing of water between competing uses of surface and groundwater systems across Australia is based on water plans. Based on adaptive management, planning involves the use of participatory processes to achieve a balance between consumptive and in-stream uses of water. Tensions between different stakeholders and values are particularly evident where overallocated water systems are required to be returned to an environmentally sustainable level of extraction, as shown in current processes for a Basin Plan in the Murray-Darling. Parliamentary enquiries have called for the incorporation of "local" approaches in water planning to ease these tensions. Two recent projects identify barriers and bridges to collaborative water planning, and in a variety of contexts, trial practical tools to address issues identified by stakeholders and agencies. Major findings include identification of factors that improve community confidence of plans. These results have implications for water planning in other countries especially where the science is contested, social values are uncertain and communities diverse.

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“…Hence, the value-laden processes of adaptation related decision-making continue to be hidden from view. By encouraging a collective awareness about different values and beliefs, reflexivity has been identified as one route through which these difficulties can be overcome (Stirling 2006, Lövbrand 2011, Voß and Bornemann 2011, Mackenzie et al 2012, Phillips et al 2013). …”

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“…At present there is a limited amount of empirical evidence on whether and how reflexivity can help within collaborative knowledge production addressing complex systems such as societal adaptive capacity (one example is MacKenzie et al, 2012). Our aim in this paper is to provide evidence on this issue, and hence to advance understanding about the potential role of reflexivity in relation to both collaborative research and adaptive management.…”

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Developing adaptive capacity through reflexivity: lessons from collaborative research with a UK water utility

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Rychlewski

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Critical Policy Studies

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The value and limitations of Participatory Action Research methodology

Cited by 105 publications

References 20 publications

Participatory Sustainability Research for Risk Management and Leadership Development

Participatory Sustainability Research for Risk Management and Leadership Development

“Localism” as an approach to community participation in Australian water planning

Developing adaptive capacity through reflexivity: lessons from collaborative research with a UK water utility

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